Electron vs Native Apps: Is the Performance Difference Real?
For years, a heated debate has raged in the software development community: Electron vs. Native. Modern desktop giants like Visual Studio Code, Slack, Discord, and Teams are built on Electron, a framework that lets developers build cross-platform desktop apps using web technologies.
At the same time, users and developers alike frequently complain about Electron apps being “bloated,” “sluggish,” and “RAM-hungry.” On the other side stand Native applications, written specifically for a target operating system (using Swift/Objective-C for macOS, Kotlin/C# for Windows/Android, and C++/Qt for Linux).
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